Nitrogen (N) cycling was analyzed in the Kalahari region of southern Africa, where a
strong precipitation gradient (from 978 to 230mm mean annual precipitation) is the main
variable affecting vegetation. The region is ...

The study set out to determine the weathering and dissolution of metal hosting minerals at Dorowa for purposes of deducing pollution potential to the nearby Save River. Phosphate rock is mined at Dorowa for
the production ...

Based on government and other relevant documentation, this paper explores the conceptual linkage between population, development, and waste management in
Botswana and the implications of this relationship for global climate ...

This paper draws on the tourism system framework to examine the problems and prospects of
urban tourism in Gaborone and Maun, Botswana. These are young centres that have a growing
number of tourist attractions, facilities ...

The Kalahari ecosystem is characterized by natural resource conflicts and
land-use pressure resulting from intensification of human activities. This
paper addresses three issues of concern associated with the Kalahari
ecosystem ...

This paper draws on archival information, anecdotal evidence from local communities, in situ observations
during field investigation and multi-date remotely sensed satellite imagery. The authors
investigated the role of ...

Grasses and forbs in Southern Africa have been understudied in terms of species richness and factor that affect diversity patterns. To gain a better understanding of factors affecting patterns of herbaceous plant species ...

The objective of this article is to assess the socio-cultural impacts of tourism
development in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. This paper largely relied on the
research work and reports by the author in the Okavango Delta ...

Since 1988 Botswana has been experiencing an unprecedented increase in vehicular traffic which
is suspected to be having contamination effects on soils along heavily used roads in the country. This study aimed at
understanding ...

The distribution of selected soil properties, selected woody vegetation properties, and land use in a
lunette dune-pan system were investigated in the Sekoma area, which is located within the IGBP Kalahari Transect (KT) ...

Moremi game reserve (MGR) in northern Botswana is one of southern Africa’s most popular destination because of its impressive
wildlife and wilderness areas. To maintain the wilderness nature of the park and game reserve, ...

This paper investigates the extent to which the differential urbanisation model is applicable to
Botswana by using empirical data obtained from periodic censuses, supportive documentary
information and observations from ...

The advent of community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) in Botswana in
the late 1980s ushered in a new paradigm in natural resource management. The strategy
marked a change from state-controlled to community-controlled ...

For the last three and half decades, Botswana has been widely acclaimed to be one of sub-Saharan Africa's longest and most stable liberal democracies, coupled with and sustained by a growing economy. One of the major ...

In most sub-Sahara African cities, rapid urbanization has placed a heavy burden on available human,
financial and socioeconomic resources. The problem has been compounded by the intricate and interactive
effects of rapid ...

Characterisation of soil water, in particular water flow dynamics is fundamental in assessing the environmental
implications to soil management. Soil water characterisation was assessed by measuring soil water content and ...

A pore-scale model based on measured particle size distributions has been used to quantify the changes in pore space geometry
of packed soil columns resulting from a dilution in electrolyte concentration from 500 to 1 ...

This study examines the sensitivity of maize and sorghum crops to global warming in
Botswana, a country with arid climatic conditions and shortfalls in locally produced grain. The
vulnerability of the maize and sorghum ...

Cattle’s rearing in Botswana is undertaken in two sectors: the communal and commercial. The
communal sector is exclusively free range and therefore depends on biomass production. This makes
the systems highly susceptible ...

This paper uses the concept of sustainable development to examine the utilisation of wildlife resources at Moremi Game Reserve (MGR) and Khwai community area (NG 18/19) in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. Using both secondary ...